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15 February 2017
Have you ever gone to the beach to find the water much colder than the day before? A range of factors influence sea surface temperatures in coastal waters. This article looks at the 'Ekman transport' effect—a wind-driven process that brings colder water to the coastline. What is Ekman transport? Ekman...
10 February 2017
It’s been over 55 years since Barbara Daniel became the first woman to graduate from the Bureau’s Meteorology course—today’s Graduate Diploma in Meteorology—in August 1961. A profession previously dominated by men, meteorology and related fields such as climatology, hydrology and...
25 January 2017
This Australia Day we're celebrating life and weather at our southernmost reaches—the Australian Antarctic Territory. Our forecaster, Rachel McInerney, shares her experiences from the icy continent. Antarctica is an amazing place, and I am very privileged to be working as a forecaster at Davis station this...
06 January 2017
For Australia’s climate, 2016 was a year of two halves. The year started with one of the strongest El Niño events on record in place in the Pacific Ocean, and the opening months of 2016 were generally hot and dry, especially in northern and eastern Australia. From May onwards there was a dramatic...
16 December 2016
Climate change made some of Australia’s 2015 extreme weather events more likely, according to research published today in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. As part of an annual review of global weather extremes, these studies focused on October 2015, which was the hottest on record for that...
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